Quotes by : Peter Mayle

The French don't snack. They will tear off the endo of a fres baguette (which, if it's warm, it's practically....

We might treat a rabbit as a pet or become emotionally attached to a goose, but we had come from cities....

The French, it seems to me, strike a happy balance between intimacy and reserve. Some of this must be....

There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden.....

It is at a time like this, when crisis threatens the stomach, that the French display the most sympathetic....

Perhaps the single most enjoyable part of my researches, which covered a period of about four years,....

And, as for the oil, it is a masterpiece. You’ll see.”Before dinner that night, we tested it, dripping....

We had a crisp, oily salad and slices of pink country sausages, an aioli of snails and cod and hard-boiled....

The English murder their meat twice: once when they shoot it, again when they cook it. 'Drôle, n'est-ce....